Placket-fastener.



PATENTED AUG. 18, 1908.

W. F. BOWEN. PLAUKET FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED DEG.17,1906.

m/ c Lam-W /5. i um WILLIAM F. BOWEN, OF MELROSE HIGHLANDS, MASSACHUSETTS.

. PLAGKET-FASTENEB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 18, 1908.

Application filed. December 17, 1906. Serial No. 848,310.

To all whom it may concern:

.Beit known that I, WILLIAM F. BOWEN, of Melrose Highlands, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Placket-Fasteners; and I ereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention has reference. to improve ments in devices for closing and securing together, the edges of placket and othersimilar openings. The object of the invention is to so construct a closing and securing device of this nature, which ma be readily operated to close and secure t e edges of the opening, and which may be as readily o erated to release said edges for a consideral ile portion of their length.

Another object of this invention isto provide a flexible placket fastener of hght weight.-

Other objects of the invention will appear from the following description.

The invention consists in the peculiar features of construction and combination of parts, which will hereafter be described and pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1, represents .a plan view of the im roved placket fastener, in the closed positlon, as secured in the placket opening of a skirt, portions of which are shown. Fig. 2, represents a reverse view of the same. Fig. 3 represents an enlarged cross sectional view of parts of the same, taken on line 33 Fig. 2. Fi 4, represents a view of the placket in t e open position.

Similar numbers of reference corresponding parts throughout. 7

In carrying this invention into practice, my main object has been to provide a placket or similar fastener, designed to draw together, the edges of any suitable opening, to which it would be attached, which fastener would be simple in operation, and of such flexible construction that, the cross folding of the placket would. not break any portion of the fastener, or result in the undue designate gaping of the edgles of the opening.

As shown in t e drawin s, 55 are strips of flexible tape or cloth, e edges 55 of which are turned over the cords 66 and secured, thus forming flexible guides, which are designed to be secured in the placket opening A of the fabric B. Secured to the lower ends of the tapes 55 is the flexible drawing member 7, aving secured thereto at suitable points, slides which have the plates 8 8 bent inward to form the clamping members 99, between which and t e plates 8-8 the drawing member 7 is secured,

and the outwardly curved hooks 10-10 adapted to partially embrace the cords 6'6 and their covering 5'5 and to slide thereon.

When the slides are moved to the positions shown in Fig. 4 of the drawing the edges of the opening above said slides readily opens, as shown in said figure. If now it is desired to close said opening, the up er end of the drawing member 7 is taken old of and is drawn upward, or along said opening, whereby the hooks 10-10 of the first slide in riding along the flexible guides, formed by the cords 66 and their covering, draw said guides together, the other guides below said first slide, being in turn drawn along as the member 7 is drawn taut between them until said slides are brought to positions approximately as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing, the hooks 10-10 preventing the spreading of the edges of the opening while the member 7 covers said closed opening as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing.

It is evident that the slides and their hooks 10-10 may be modified considerably from the shape and size shown in the drawings, and that these slides may be made of other material than sheet metal.

Having thus described my invention claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Ifatent.

A. fastener for a placket or similar opening, furnished with guldes at its edges and compris' a flat drawing member and a series of slides ocated at intervals along said drawing member, said slides having flat back plates, located at one side of the drawing member, clamping plates bent inward from said back plates, and bearing against the other side of the drawing member and engaging plates bent from said clamping plates and slidably engaged with said guides.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM F. BOWEN. Witnesses:

H. J. MILLER, B.;L. GrLBRroE. 

